Death inquiry reveals five people in Reynolds mansion
Libby Holman Reynolds testified the heir to tobacco millions threatened suicide seven or eight times. The Twin City Sentinel reports on good authority that five people were in Smith Reynolds home the night of the shooting, contrary to earlier four person counts. Blanche Yurka testified to support Albert Walker that he was on the first floor.
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Winston-Salem, N. C
Libby Holman Reynolds
Winston Salem
N. C
Twin City Sentinel Today
Smith Reynold
William Vaught
Greensboro
the Sentinel
Walker
Blanche Yurka
New York
Reynold
Albert Walker
Reynolds
Hoover Vetoes Wagner Garner Relief Measure
President Hoover vetoed the 2 122 000 000 Wagner Gardner relief bill and recommended removing loans for private individuals. Congress pressed to finish its agenda while awaiting possible administration substitution and signals of an override effort.
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Hoover
Wagner
Washington
Ramblin' Columns, Woes, and a Missing Lawn Mower
West Monroe readers share a rambling tale of an old timer living in a tent with a large family facing poverty due to drought and no fertilizer. The piece contrasts humor with hardship and ends noting a theft case where a lawn mower was recovered from a suspect loading it into a box car.
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S. B. Lipsey
Jes
Monroe
Juanita Porter
Jackson Street
Bonus Army veterans seek train fare home under relief fund
Police guard veterans applying at the Veterans Administration for railroad tickets home from Washington. A 100000 relief fund funded loans while others feared violence though none occurred. General Hines cited only 82 tickets issued and urged jobs as the solution as Walters plans a Newark radio appeal for recruits and supplies.
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Veterans Administration
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Veterans Administration Building
Frank T. Hines
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Hines
Walter W. Waters
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Sixteen Die In Weekend Accidents Across Dixie States
The sixteenth weekend fatality came when Ruth Ellis James backed into an airplane propeller at McDonough Georgia during airport dedication. Other deaths include Annie Lois Eddleman in Atlanta auto crash, Moon and Grumbles in Brevard North Carolina, Floyd Ledford in Toe River North Carolina, and a train fatality in Greensboro North Carolina. Victims span North Carolina Virginia Georgia Arkansas South Carolina Tennessee and Mississippi.
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McDonough
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Toe River
Spruce Pine
David B. Queen
Greensboro
Louis Lee Thompson
Virginia Beach
Clara Wise
Nags Head
Edwin
Session adjournment eyed as Garner signals week end
Washington reports Speaker Garner told newspapermen Congress would adjourn by week’s end amid notes of relief bill compromise. Hoover veto looms on loans to individuals while Senator Reed and Rep Treadway push a substitute Wagner-Garner relief plan within days.
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Texas
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Man Dies in Car Fire Near Monroe on Bastrop Road
A unidentified man burned to death when his Ford coupe caught fire about 12 miles from Monroe on the Bastrop road. Dr. Tom Mitchell phoned in the fatal blaze and an ambulance and Monroe fire department truck rushed to the scene before 2 o clock. The body was brought to the city after the fire was reported.
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Tom Mitchell
Monroe
Bastrop Road
Melon shippers paid in checks by chamber of commerce
About 45 to 50 cantaloupe shippers receive payment today at the Chamber of Commerce offices. The first consignment yielded growers one and three fourths cents per melon with future consignments awaited from the Fruit Supply Co of St. Louis. Shipments began June 28 with the eighteenth car loaded. three were shipped on Sundays. Secretary S H McClary expects a detailed report on costs and totals at season end, including railroad earnings.
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Chamber of Commerce
Fruit Supply Company
St. Louis
George Breece Lumber Company
S. H. McClary
Democrats Spark Calif battleground in Hoover Roosevelt clash
Washington reports California becomes a key 1932 battleground as Democrats plan a strong challenge in Hoover's home state. The piece notes Roosevelt's campaign drive to California with Garner and the potential impact of Senator Hiram Johnson, who criticizes Hoover and favors Roosevelt, while registration trends show Republican gains and shifts in the state.
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United Press
Washington
California
Hoover
Senate
Hiram Johnson
Roosevelt
Drowned in Flood Waters of Paint and Armstrong Creeks
Eleven people are reported drowned in the Paint and Armstrong creeks near Charleston West Virginia after a sudden rainstorm. Eight women were recovered and authorities fear more fatalities as reports say over 150 homes on the creeks may have been washed away. The Kanawha river shows wreckage with debris floating as navigation becomes nearly impossible.
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Charleston
W. Va
Kanawha
One Man Killed and Another Wounded in Capital Service Station Shooting
In Baton Rouge a 24 year old man, Stanley Couvillion, was killed and his 21 year old cousin Gilmore Couvillion wounded at a service station after a dispute over a young woman. Suspect Wilfred Lindsey, 22, fled but police expect surrender. The 16 year old girl involved was unharmed. Lindsey’s revolver was recovered. A manhunt spread to New Orleans and nearby towns.
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Baton Rouge
Stanley Couvillion
Gilmore B. Couvillion
Wilfred Lindsey
Lindsey
King Strenzke
Gilmore Couvillion
Couvillion
Voters Offer Big Assortment of 3rd Parties
Washington July 11 The article outlines several third party movements drawing dissenters from main parties. It notes organizers aim to echo past 1912 Bull Moose and 1924 Progressive efforts. It lists Prohibition party, a liberal party faction, and the League for Independent Political Action among active minority groups.
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Washington
Hoover
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Bob LaFollette
Prohibition Party
Liberal Party
Central and Western Agricultural Zone
League For Independent Political Action
Newsom Transferred to Jackson State Hospital for Criminal Insanity
James W. Newsom, held in Ouachita parish jail after the fatal shooting of Monroe physician Dr. Baxter Porter, was moved to the state hospital for the criminally insane in Jackson. He is expected to remain there until recovered, though some lunacy commission members doubt full recovery. The commission report named Dr C L Mengis and Drs R W O’Donnell and M B Pearce.
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Ouachita Parish
Baxter Porter
Monroe
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Newsom
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R. W. O'Donnell
M. B. Pearce
Picket Slain in New Trouble in Mining Area
Bellaire Ohio July 11 one picket is dead and a miner wounded probably fatally in fresh outbreaks of trouble during the Ohio bituminous coal strike. Steven Bowen 40 of Buchtel died from a bullet wound yesterday when he and other pickets tried to block Clarence Grant from reporting for duty. Gail Gamble 23 at Powhatan mine Belmont county was wounded by a group of alleged pickets.
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New York
Ohio
Steven Bowen
Buchtel
Millfield
Sunday Creek Coal Company
Clarence Grant
Gail Gamble
Powhatan
Belmont County
Funeral services for former state senator Ethelred Stafford
Funeral services were held in New Orleans for Ethelred Macauley Stafford 59 a former state senator and noted attorney who died suddenly at his home yesterday found by his wife after she returned from church services.
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New Orleans
Ethelred Macauley Stafford
Girls Abandon Rent Car In New Orleans
In New Orleans on July 11 Miss Esther Beasley a singer and Miss Linda Worth a dancer both 19 from Tulsa Oklahoma were held after abandoning a rented car for lack of funds to pay the bill. The vehicle sat two days on a downtown street before recovery and a tentative grand larceny charge was filed. The women said they came to town seeking nightclub engagements.
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New Orleans
Esther Beasley
Linda Worth
Tulsa
Okla
Temce
Virginian Fined for Hoax in Lindbergh Kidnap Case
John Hughes Curtis, convicted of hindering the Lindbergh baby kidnapers, is sentenced in Flemington New Jersey to one year in jail and a $1000 fine. Defense presses arrest of judgment amid heated court arguments while seeking an appeal.
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Flemington
N. J
John Hughes Curtis
Curtis
Adams O. Robbins
Lloyd C. Fisher
Treasury ready for House inquiry says spokesman
Washington July 11 A treasury spokesman told the House Rules Committee his department would cooperate if an inquiry into government fiscal agencies is decided but warned the move would be a waste of time and money Undersecretary Ballantine testified that no facts warranted the inquiry noting it would arrive as the tax bill is being adjusted He said the administration should not be blocked by a probe while Speaker Garner supports the effort and Representative McFadden accuses the administration of obstruction
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Treasury
House
Ballantine
Treasury and
Federal Reserve Board
McFadden
Pennsylvannia
Garner
Butane Internal Revenue
Angelus Choir Member Defies Move Against Him
Lake Elsinore California July reports detail David Hutton a singer in the Angelus temple facing urged removal after Myrtle Jean St Pierre nurse won 5000 in a 200000 breach of promise suit against Aimee Semple McPherson's husband. Hutton vows defiance while McPherson allies stand by her husband and church followers discuss revolt.
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Calif
David Hutton
Myrtle Jean St. Pierre
Aimee Semple McPherson
Angelus Temple
Hutton
St. Pierre
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